Subject: Re: 'dd' ing a hard drive to a file
To: John Maier <jmaier@midamerica.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/16/2001 23:21:26
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:02:44PM -0500, John Maier wrote:
> Background: I'm using i386 1.5 (release) I have a SCSI drive that is from a HP
> 735/99 running HP/UX 10.10 and the drive is whining something fierce.
> 
> I hooked the drive to the SCSI port, the netbsd kernel sees the physical drive,
> of course the partitions can't been seen.  Since I'm booting from a IDE drive,
> it is the only SCSI device (yes I have a SCSI card with nothing on it, don't
> ask) so it at sd0.
> 
> At the prompt I type:
> > dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=hpux1010.dsk
> 
> Say it read 2xxxxxx bytes to the file and exits.
> 
> What do you think?

If you want to read the whole disk you need to use /dev/rsd0d

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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